Finding your groove: getting into vinyl with Audio-Technica
I’d like to think that I could’ve been friends with the late Hideo Matsushita, founder of Japanese Hi-Fi powerhouse Audio-Technica. If I could, I’d travel back in time to 1960’s Tokyo, where a young Matsushita curated “vinyl listening sessions” at the Bridgestone Museum of Arts, exposing visitors to the sounds and possibilities of high end audio and the warmth of vinyl records. I imagine sitting with him in a mod coffee shop, listening to the stories of what he witnessed in those sessions, the conversations he had with visitors, and what ultimately motivated him to head back to his small apartment above a ramen restaurant and start an audio company of his own. In the histories I’ve read regarding AT’s humble beginnings, Matsushita’s motives seem clear. Produce high end audio at affordable prices, bringing audio excellence into spaces and to customers that simply didn’t have access to it before. His first two products, the AT-1 and AT-3 phono cartridges did exactly that, and...
Dec 6, 2023
For me this month best audiophile track is "Unsuffer Me" from the LP "Vanished Garden" played by Charles Lloyd & The Marvels with Lucinda Williams, streamed as Master from Tidal on my Laptop MSI with Realteak card set at 24/96, amplified with Schiit Asgard V1 headphone amplifier and with Massdrop Hifiman 4xx with a postmarket cable ( 4 cores OCC Silver Plated Headphone Cable for Hifiman HE1000 HE400S He400i HE-X ); 64 audio U6; Angie CIEM.
A beautiful performance very complex and musically intriguing that need a very musical stuff. In fact, both 64 audio and Hifiman resulted too monitor, with controlled bass and crispy voice. Angie was perfect with Lucinda voice emotional and vibrant and bass round and resonant. Saxophone insert and drum well integrated and speedy. Class A Schiit made a great work with Angie and Hifiman very power angry headphones.
Well I started, now please tell me your favorite track of June-July 2018.